[Avodah] Mezonos Becomes HaMotzi

[Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah]

An airline meal which, other than to those living in the third world, is
not a true meal by any stretch of the imagination, is not the benchmark for
defining Halacha.

In the same way that bread we eat today would without question be deemed to
be Mezonos in Talmudic times (and we may similarly reflect - in the reverse
- on soft Matza) as we've added oil and sugar, yet today even raisin
challah is universally accepted as HaMotzi; so too the definition of a
Halachic meal that converts Mezonos to HaMotzi, must reflect what is deemed
to be normal for our eating habits.

Airline meals may be chosen by some even as a Shabbos meal, that's why I
proposed the scenario where everyone else at the table is eating a regular
Shabbos meal.

There are likely many thousands who keep busy work schedules and make a
meal on the go their regular lunch, but that hardly qualifies to set the
standard to define a meal.
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